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Three numbers are shown because three are genuinely different. Characters with spaces is what social platforms and SMS limits measure. Without spaces is what some academic and translation work counts. Graphemes counts what a person would call a character - a family emoji is one grapheme but eleven code units, which is why naive counters disagree with your eyes.
Estimated at 238 words per minute for silent reading and 150 for reading aloud. Those are averages for adults on non-technical prose from Brysbaert's 2019 meta-analysis. Technical or unfamiliar material runs considerably slower, so treat the figure as a floor rather than a promise.
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At 238 words per minute for silent reading and 150 for reading aloud, which are the averages reported in the research literature for adults reading non-technical prose. Dense or technical material is slower.
The count with spaces is what most platforms measure. Note that emoji and some accented characters take more than one unit in SMS, and links are often counted as a fixed length regardless of their actual size.
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